Derek WalcottI have been reading Derek Walcott for many years, but this still startled me with its wisdom and eloquence. It's clearly a poem that had to lived before it could be put into words. If we can only take Walcott's advice, each of us can have the full life that only self-acceptance allows.

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I review British poetry for The Manhattan Review and write about music for The Elgar Society Journal. I also serve as one of the trustees for the Elgar Complete Edition, which is publishing a uniform edition of the composer's scores. My photographs have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and I have produced more than a dozen videos for The New York Times and McGraw-Hill.

I have contributed to textbooks published by Prentice-Hall, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Oxford University Press.

My website is named after the world's first journal devoted entirely to literature and philosophy, launched by Friedrich Schiller in Tuebingen, Germany in 1795. Die Horen is the German name for the Horae, the Greek goddesses of the seasons.